There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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